Olive Boulevard Design Guidelines

University City, MO

LANDSCAPING SECTIONS

APPENDIX-A

January 2009 Appendix-A: Olive Boulevard Plant List By Landscaping Sections

Street Tree/ Ornamental Common Tree Type Botanical Name Name Maintainence Factor Growth rate Height Width Picture Hedging/ Planters/ Shrubs/ Common Botanical Common Medians Type Botanical Name Name Picture Type Name Name Picture

Acer x freemanii Armstron/ Low Fast 50'- 60' 15'- 20' Bowhall 'Armstrong Street Tree Columnar with fastigiate branching, widening to narrow oval with maturity. Very heat tolerant, Hybrid between Red and Silver maples. Adaptable over a wide range of climate and soil conditions. Will tolerate partial shade.

Winter King Crataegus viridis Low Moderate 25'- 35' 25'- 35' Hawthorn

Easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soil in full sun. Drought tolerant. Moist, rich fertile soils Ornamental may encourage unwanted succulent growth.Excellent spring flowering tree for lawns and streets. Good fall Trees color and persistent fruit help provide year round interest. Pollution tolerance makes it a good candidate for urban plantings. One of the most disease-free hawthorns. As with most hawthorns, there is some susceptibility to rust (rust stage of cedar hawthorn rust where eastern red cedars are present in the area) and fireblight, but this cultivar is noted for its good resistance to both diseases.

Hedging/ Juniperus x Spartan Screening (6 Euonymus alata Burning Bush Juniper feet) Spartan Landscaping Section-1 Shrubs Interchange Commercial

Hedging/ Juniperus chin. Compact Screening (3 Berberis thun. Barberry Juniper feet) Pfitzer Gaillardia "" Planters Hemerocallis x Daylillies Medians Blanket Flower

Ginko Ginkgo biloba "Princeton Low Fast 50'- 60' 20'- 30' Sentry" Street Tree This male cultivar of Ginkgo is practically pestfree, resistant to storm damage, and casts light shade due to the narrow crown . It has a dense, fat columnar form. It makes a durable street tree where there is limited vertical Section-2 overhead space. The tree is easily transplanted and has a vivid yellow fall color which is second to none in Landscaping brilliance - Yoshino Prunus yedoensis Medium Fast 30'- 40' 30'- 40' Cherry

3 Street Tree The Yoshino cherry is more subtle than most, in early April its branches are clothed with single pale-pink blooms that have a delicate fragrance. These are followed later in the year by small, red fruits. The handsome oval leaves have hairy undersides and colour well in the autumn. They make ideal trees for small gardens, providing interest throughout the year and casting a light shade. Landscaping Section Ginko Ginkgo biloba "Princeton Low Fast 50'- 60' 20'- 30' Sentry" Street Tree This male cultivar of Ginkgo is practically pestfree, resistant to storm damage, and casts light shade due to the narrow crown . It has a dense, fat columnar form. It makes a durable street tree where there is limited vertical Section-4

Landscaping overhead space. The tree is easily transplanted and has a vivid yellow fall color which is second to none in brilliance

Flowering Prunus 'Kanzan' Medium Moderate 25'- 30' 25'- 30' Cherry Ornamental Trees These are considered by many the most showy and one of the more popular cherries. Flowering is extravagant with double pink, almost magenta-colored, blossoms borne in hanging clusters of two to five flowers each.

Hedging/ Juniperus chin. Hollywood Screening 6 Syringa meyeri Korean Lilac Juniper feet torrulosa International District Hedging/ Ilex glabra Compact Rubidor Screening 3 Shrubs Wegiela Inkberry Weigela feet compacta

Pink Parasols Viola spp Red Pansy Spiraea x Spiraea

Garnet Rosa x Magic Carpet Rose Sedum x Planters Brocade

Medians

Purple Chrysanthemum Dark Triumph Sedum x Emperor

Silver Linden Tilia tomentosa Low Medium 50' - 60' 30- 40' "Sterling"

Street Tree The Silver Linden is a wonderful shade tree with a pleasing form and lustrous dark-green leaves. This tree produces yellowish white flowers that are very fragrant and attractive against the dark green leaves. It is widely grown as an ornamental tree throughout its native range in Europe.

Cercis canadensis Redbud Medium to Low Fast 15'-20' 15'-20'

Ornamental Redbud is native to the southeastern and central United States, from New Jersey south. It has small, Landscaping Section-5Trees clustered, sessile dark brown floral Landscaping Sections- 2,3 & 4 buds swell to purple-lavender buds in early Spring, slowly opening to pink- lavender flowers, prominently displayed in April before the foliage emerges and persistent for two to three weeks Pink Alfredo Viburnum Muhlygrass Chokecherry

Aronia trilobum capillaris Viburnum

melanocarpa Muhlenbergia Shrubs Medians Medium to Low Fast 50'- 60' 40'- 50' Pine Susan Bayberry Kentucky "Espresso" Black Eyed Coffee Tree Mugo Serviceberry Medium Moderate 15'- 25' 10'- 20' Silvery Sunproof

mugo Myrica

pensylvanica Pinus mugho Rudbeckia x Liriope muscari Amelanchier spp.

Gymnocladus dioicus Kentucky Coffee Tree is a hardy native tree commonly found on moist bottom lands and slopes. The bark and winter habit are very attractive, however, only male (fruitless) named varieties should be used. E.g. "Espresso", "Stately Manor". Serviceberry (Amelanchier spp.) is a small deciduous tree or shrub with attractive white spring blossoms. graceful, airy trees or shrubs provide year-round ornamental interest in the landscape, with nice fall color ranging from yellow to red. Trees Planters Street Tree Ornamental

Hedging/ Screening 6 feet Hedging/ Screening 3 feet

Landscaping Section- 6 Section- Landscaping 6 & 5 Sections- Landscaping Parkway District Parkway - Coreopsis Moonbeam Gro-lo Sumac 25'- 30' 25'- 30'

Coreopsis verticillata

Rhus aromatica Fast Moderate to Medians Shrubs Grass Rocky Juniper Zelkova Low Fast 50'- 70' 40'- 50' Mountain "Nordica" Dwarf Fntn Inkberry var. Amur Maackia Low

Gleam" Maackia amurensis Juniperus Ilex glabra compacta

Pennisetum al.

Zelkova serrata n attractive summer-flowering tree. Shows excellent adaptability to extremes of soil conditions. Tree is a slow scopulorum "Gray Zelkova is one of the two best large shade trees with a vase shape, rapid growth rate and stately appearance that, coupled with its other ornamental features of Summer/Autumn foliage, fine texture, and attractive bark, make it a truly underutilized tree in modern landscapes. Good shade tree; easy fall cleanup; tolerant of heat, drought, wind, and urban conditions. A growing tree that will give multi-season interest to broad streetscapes. Eventually, it grow 10m tall, with an irregular, intricately-branched canopy, elegant pinnately-compound foliage and upright racemes of white flowers in the summer. The bark exfoliates multi-colored plates, and becomes very interesting on mature trees. Trees Street Tree Ornamental

Hedging/ Screening 6 feet Hedging/ Screening 3 feet Planters

Landscaping Section- 7 Section- Landscaping Industrial